The International Space Station, with a crew of six onboard, is seen in silhouette as it transits the moon at roughly five miles per second on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018.
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“Laplander.” This woman’s portrait was taken at Ellis Island in 1910, as she was trying to immigrate to the United States. It is unknown if she succeeded.
She was photographed in her own clothing, wearing a gákti, the traditional costume of the Sámi people of the Arctic regions spanning from northern Norway to the Kola Peninsula in Russia. Traditionally made from reindeer leather and wool, velvet and silks are also used. The pullover, her main piece of clothing, was typically blue.
In 1919, the first major aviation disaster in the United States occurred in Chicago. The Wingfoot Express blimp crashed into the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank, taking the lives of 13 people and injuring 27 more.
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Canada once tried to import yaks, to get Inuits in northern Quebec herding and farming, and “into mainstream Canadian society”. Basically the idea was to wean Inuit off their hunter-gatherer way of life. And as a side benefit, the yak-importation would cultivate a special relationship with a newly-independent India.
The plan never played out, partially because one of the three test yaks they brought in was sterile!
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Abigail Powers started life as a schoolmistress in New York state, and eventually married one of her pupils – future US president Millard Fillmore. The couple, though never rich, acquired a private library of over 4,000 books which was astonishing for the time. Though Abigail stopped teaching after the birth of their first child, and Millard’s election to the New York state legislature, she never lost her love for learning. Her husband always made sure to buy her a few new books during his travels to cities like Albany, New York, and Washington. So when Abigail moved into the White House, she was horrified to discover that the executive mansion housed not a single book. No library for the president? An outrage.
She got Congress to give the Fillmores $2,000 to start a collection for a presidential library, and Abigail personally supervised the purchase of each item. Maps, reference works, histories, even some novels made their way to the White House’s second-floor parlor, which became the official White House library. The finishing touch was a piano, which Abigail had taught herself to play. Though the room has changed (from the second floor parlor to the ground floor) the White House library is still the most famous legacy of Abigail Powers Fillmore, the First Lady who loved to learn.
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O professor Giulio Magli acredita que a pirâmide pode ser o lar de um trono esculpido no núcleo de um meteorito.
A ideia talvez não seja tão maluca quanto parece, especialmente porque os antigos egípcios sabiam usar ferro meteórico na criação de outros artefatos, como o punhal do rei Tut.
“Existe uma possível interpretação, que está de acordo com o que sabemos sobre a religião funerária egípcia, como testemunhou nos Textos das Pirâmides”, disse Magli.
“Nestes textos diz-se que o faraó, antes de chegar às estrelas do norte, terá que passar pelos portões do céu e sentar-se no seu trono de ferro”.
Tal artefato, ele argumenta, poderia encontrar-se dentro de um “vazio” descoberto recentemente na Grande Pirâmide que alguns acreditam ser o lar de uma câmara escondida.
Engenheiros da Universidade do Cairo estão atualmente desenvolvendo um robô especial que eles esperam enviar através de um pequeno buraco na parede adjacente para descobrir o que está no espaço inexplorado.
“O principal desafio é inserir um robô de exploração em um buraco tão pequeno quanto possível”, disse o pesquisador principal, Dr. Jean-Baptiste Mouret.
“É importante usar um buraco tão pequeno quanto possível, porque queremos deixar poucos vestígios que pudermos. O que chamamos de ‘robótica minimamente invasiva'”.
Há uma câmara cheia de tesouros antigos selados dentro da Grande Pirâmide, certamente será uma das descobertas mais significativas da história arqueológica.
A falta de monóxido de carbono em um mundo rico em metano poderia indicar a presença de vida extraterrestre.
Um dos métodos mais comuns utilizados para determinar a habitabilidade de um planeta é procurar evidências de oxigênio em sua atmosfera – algo que é um importante indicador da vida aqui na Terra.
Mas e se as formas de vida em outros mundos não produzem oxigênio?
“Nós não queremos colocar todos os nossos ovos em uma cesta”, disse o co-autor do estudo, Joshua Krissansen-Totton.
“Mesmo que a vida seja comum no cosmos, não temos ideia se será a vida que faz oxigênio. A bioquímica da produção de oxigênio é muito complexa e pode ser bastante rara”.
Para resolver este problema, os cientistas analisaram as condições atmosféricas que existiam no passado distante da Terra – um momento em que a atmosfera estava cheia de uma mistura de gases muito diferente.
“Precisamos buscar metano e dióxido de carbono bastante abundante em um mundo que tenha água líquida em sua superfície e encontrar uma ausência de monóxido de carbono”, disse o co-autor do estudo, David Catling.
“Nosso estudo mostra que essa combinação seria um sinal convincente da vida”.
“O que é excitante é que nossa sugestão é realizável e pode levar à descoberta histórica de uma biosfera extraterrestre em um futuro não muito distante”.
Uma fotografia tirada no castelo de Eynsford em Kent, Inglaterra, parece mostrar uma misteriosa figura em camuflagem.
Jon Wickes estava visitando o castelo medieval com seu filho de 12 anos quando algo estranho apareceu em uma de suas fotografias.
A figura anômala, que nenhum deles notou no momento em que a foto foi tirada, parece estar vestida com um grande casaco encapuzado e parece um pouco como um monge medieval.
Curiosamente, houveram observações de um monge fantasmagórico no castelo em 1130, William de Eynsford, que ocupava o castelo e se retirou para se tornar um monge.
“Não tenho certeza se é um fantasma ou não”, disse Wickes. “Todo mundo que viu isso está interessado porque muitos pensam que é um fantasma”.
To my surprise, it is not penicillin! Instead it was an antibiotic named Prontosil. Developed in the 1930s in Nazi Germany, by Bayer, it was a clever impostor that mimicked bacteria’s food: they ate prontosil and starved to death. Prontosil and drugs derived from it saved millions of lives up till the 1960’s. Its creator, Gerhard Domagk, was awarded the Nobel Prize for his efforts.
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As autoridades fiscais britânicas lançaram uma lista de alguns dos motivos mais ridículos para as declarações fiscais tardias.
Embora existam muitas razões legítimas para que alguém possa ter atrasado ao enviar sua declaração de imposto antes do prazo, algumas das desculpas oferecidas para envio tardio são francamente bizarras.
Talvez o mais estranho deles seja de um homem que afirmou ter sido incapaz de arquivar a sua declaração de impostos a tempo, porque sua esposa estava vendo extraterrestres e isto não o deixou entrar na casa.
Havia também o caso de um homem que culpou sua declaração de retorno de imposto atrasado sobre o fato de que ele sofria de vertigem e, portanto, não conseguiu subir as escadas para recuperar os documentos.
Outras desculpas variaram de “eu derramei café sobre ele” até “meu negócio não faz nada”.
“Cada ano, estamos tornando mais fácil e mais intuitivo para nossos cidadãos o retorno dos imposto, mas todos os anos ainda encontramos algumas desculpas questionáveis, desde uma agitada agenda de turnês ou vendo alienígenas”, disse o Diretor Geral de Cliente da HMRC Serviços Angela MacDonald.
“No entanto, a ajuda sempre será fornecida para aqueles que têm uma desculpa genuína para não enviar seu imposto no tempo”.
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The discovery of a town of 20,000 could put south-central Kansas on the map as the second-biggest settlement of Native Americans found in the United States, a Wichita State anthropologist says. The city was believed mythological for centuries. Spanish accounts of a permanent settlement with 20,000 Native Americans in it were thought to be exaggerated.
With new archaeological evidence of Etzanoa emerging, historians and archaeologists are having to rethink what they know about what North America looked like before Columbus.
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Toghon Temür was installed as the tenth emperor of the Yuan dynasty in 1333, aged just 13 years old. He is also remembered as the last Khagan (khan or emperor) of the Mongol Empire. A series of natural disasters occurred in his reign, and he helped things go downhill by being especially interested in mixing pleasure and religious matters – such as practicing obscure sexual/magical rites from Tibet. Unsurprisingly he was deeply unpopular. Even his son plotted to overthrow him!
But in the end, it was native Chinese rebellions that did him in, the last and most successful of which is today known as the Red Turban Rebellion. Toghon Temür was forced to flee China for the Mongolian steppes, where the Yuan retained control, and the Ming were installed as the next (ethnically Chinese) dynasty in China.
Native Americans knew about rubber for centuries (at least) before Europeans stumbled onto the Americas. They made balls for children, and waterproof shoes and bottles with the weird milky white substance that bled from certain trees – what we call latex today.
Karl Dönitz was briefly Nazi Germany’s head of state, after the death of Adolf Hitler. Well, if you count these things.
After the death of Adolf Hitler and in accordance with Hitler’s last will and testament, Dönitz was named Hitler’s successor as head of state, with the title of President of Germany and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces. He promptly ordered German military leaders to surrender.
According to declassified Soviet archives, during Stalin’s great purge of 1937 and 1938, over 1.5 million people were detained. Of those detained, 681,692 were shot – with an average of 1,000 executions a day. In comparison, the tsars’ royal government executed 3,932 persons for political crimes, from 1825 to 1910.